Haircloth holder



1933. w. L. SULLIVAN HAIRCLOTH HOLDER Filed May 27. 1932 ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 1, 1933 PATENT .FFicE um'rso sTA'rss 3 Claims.

My present invention has reference to a clip for holding hair cloths around the neck of a a person being operated upon by. a barber or an artist in beauty shops and the object of the invention is to dispense with pins or analogous devices which pierce the garment. and which are apt to inflict injury to the person upon whom the cloth is applied and further to. produce a clip which can be easily and quickly applied to properly hold the folds of'the cloth together and which also maybe readily and quickly detached from the cloth,

, To. the-attainment of the foregoing theinvention consists in the improvement hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 isa'perspective view illustrating the application of the improved clip; I

v Figure 2 is an approximately central longitudinal sectional view throughthe improvement.

Figure'B is a transverse sectional View approximately on theline 3.3 of Figure 2.

V Figure 4 is a View or a blank of the spring plate from which the body'of the clip is formed.

As disclosed by Figured of the drawing the body of the clip is constructed from a single and sanitary. From bothv of its ends the inner face of the strip lis grooved longitudinally, a

single centrally arranged and longitudinally ex tending groove 2 being provided from one of said ends, and the other end is provided with two spaced longitudinally extending grooves 3, re- "spectively. The end provided with the single groove 2 is bent and'rounded upon itself from a transverse score line l" (Figure 4), while the end provided with the spaced pair of grooves is bent from the central portion of the body 5 of the strip first upon the transverse score line 6 and then on the second and. outertransverse score line 7 (Figure 4). 7 These bent portions provide the'strip with an inner spring jaw 8 and an outer spring jaw '9, and the end of the spring jaw 9 is tapered or rounded outwardly, as at 10.

The grooved portions of the respective jaws afford confronting ribs, and the body of the stripscrew the jaw 8 may be forced toward the outer jaw 9.

As disclosed by the drawing the clip may be readily slipped over the folded rear portions of a'neck cloth 13 and by adjusting the screw 12 the jaw 8 is forced toward the jaw 9 to tightly grip the cloth 13 between thev ribs and grooves afforded on the confronting ends of the jaws. Ordinarily the screw 13 may be dispensed with as thejaws exert a sufficient spring action toward each other as to tightly grip the cloth 13 therebetween. 1 I

By reference to Figure 2 of the drawing it will be noted that the rounded portion between the body 5 and the jaw 9 protrudes, as at 16,

toward the outer face of the said jaw and this protruding portion also affords a contact element for the cloth 13.

Y Having described the invention, I claim:

.1. A hair cloth holder comprising a clip' formed from a single piece of material bent upon itself to provide a body, an inner jaw and an outer jaw, said inner jaw being grooved to provide the jaw with a central rib, the said outer jaw being grooved to provide the latter with spaced end ribs, and a movable member extended through the body and contacting with the inner jaw to force the latter toward the .outer jaw.

2. A hair cloth holder comprising a clip formed from a single piece of spring metal bent upon itself from adjacent its outer ends to provide a body an inner jaw andan outer jaw, said outer jaw having its end rounded outwardly and both of the jaws being grooved to provide respectively central and end ribs, and a knurled screw threaded through the body to contact with the groove intheinner jaw to both of the jaws being grooved to provide respectively central and end ribs, and a knurled screw threaded through the body to contact with the groove in the inner jaw to force the inner jaw toward the outer jaw, and the rounded connecting portionbetween' the body and the outer jaw being protruded outwardly. I

WILLIAM L. SULLIVAN. 

